Rabbit Holes

​Georgia, a hardworking ER nurse realizes, after a 24-hour shift, that her eighty-year-old mother is missing. But where could she have gone? When she finds a manuscript the old woman has written, Georgia is shocked to discover how little she knows or understands her mother. The old woman, Bernadette, has been stalking people on the internet, piecing together bits and pieces of their stories; people united, she believes, by relationships they have been having on the astral plane. From the pop art scene in 1960's Chicago to a reality TV show in Vegas, from psychics to art critics to tech pioneers to embezzlers, her mother has uncovered, like a detective, an entire world. Now Georgia, in order to find her mother, must decode it. To what extent can she believe the things she is reading? Are they fiction? Has her mother utterly lost it? And how is it that the woman she has lived with every day has been secretly doing this.

It is a wild, fantastical book of surprising breadth, and of course at the end it becomes about simple ways we misremember our own childhoods, ways we misunderstand those closest to us, ways we pin identity to memory, and the ways we make core mistakes in so doing.